Botox for 8-year-old all a hoax? Mother recanting story told on tv about injecting daughter

(CBS) SAN FRANCISCO - The mother who appeared on "Good Morning America" last week and said she regularly injects her 8-year-old daughter with Botox is suddenly saying that the story is a hoax, according to several reports.

Sheena Upton - who people thought was Kerry Campbell - told TMZ that she made up the story for money. She now claims that the British tabloid The Sun paid her $200 to "play the part of Kerry Campbell for a story called 'I Give My 8-Year-Old Daughter Botox.'"

However, the tabloid is refuting the mother's latest account.

Upton, aka Campbell, says the botox scheme really took off once television got wind of it.

After the story ran in The Sun, both "Good Morning America" and "Inside Edition" contacted Upton and supposedly offered her large sums of money to appear on their shows. One unnamed source says Upton was paid $10,000 by GMA, though an unnamed source at ABC News disputes that amount, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. ABC also says they interviewed Upton and other sources before the show to confirm that the Botox story was true.

Upton lost custody of her daughter to child welfare services after she and her daughter appeared on GMA last week.

To get her daughter back, Upton hired a lawyer and "signed under penalty of perjury" a declaration stating that the story was made up, the Chronicle reports.

Upton's daughter was reportedly examined at UCLA medical center where doctors confirmed that the 8-year-old had never received Botox injections.  

TMZ reports that the The Sun is strongly denying it scripted a fake botox story, and claims they only published the story after a reporter watched the woman inject her daughter.

Bit of a head scratcher, that.